Gamers who use AMD GPUs.

Gamers who use AMD GPUs.
DashPole

DashPole

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As the title states - what has your experience been like with AMD GPUs?

The Ryzen series CPUs took the PC gaming hardware world by storm, have the AMD GPUs done the same?

If you have any comments, please state what GPU and CPU you are running.
 
I am running the XFX 6800XT for two years now and I am very happy.

Price performance/performance is good, silent and cool compared to the older AMD cards I had in the past (R9 280/R9 Vega 64)
 
I'm also running a XFX 6800XT no performance problems yet
The only minor problem i have is that I can't turn off the logo LED
 
noman said:
Do these not run hotter and draw more power than Nvidia's cards?
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I think it was just the 6800 and 6900 series that maybe had those issues. The current 7000 series did away with it. I'm probably going to switch to a 7800 end of this year if I save enough pennies.
 
I've been running an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT paired with a Ryzen 7 5800X, and it's been an absolute beast for gaming at 1440p. While AMD's GPUs haven't made quite the splash Ryzen CPUs did, they're seriously competitive, offering great performance for the price. Overall, I'm impressed and satisfied.
 
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DashPole said:
As the title states - what has your experience been like with AMD GPUs?

The Ryzen series CPUs took the PC gaming hardware world by storm, have the AMD GPUs done the same?

If you have any comments, please state what GPU and CPU you are running.
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Since forever (since the Nvidia GeForce FX5600 128mb Vram from early 2000s) ive been using Nvidia

FX5600 128mb mm 2001-2007 ish
GT 9800m (Acer Laptop) - 2008-2011/12
GT650 2GB err 2011/2012 ish-2016
GTX 1080 Founders Edition 8GB - 2016 - 2023
Now since 2023
AsRock RX 7900XT Reference Card 20GB - 2023 - Present
GT 730 *(for testing purpose) 2GB i think - 2023
RTX 3050 8GB - 2022 (HTPC) - 2023 in wifes PC
RX 6700XT 12GB - 2023 ()HTPC)

I will say i prefer the AMD software to nvidia for simplist of reasons the fact i dont need to sign in for a damn update unlike GeForce expereince which i never really bothred utilising cause more stupidy than anything else now Nvidia is great especially with the Cuda cores for rending videos etc

AMD was cheaper than the then RTX 4080 i wasnt interested in the 4090 especialyl at the price tag i played on full HD for a long time and when i got the GTX 1080 had Ultrawide 2560x1080 in 25" size and got that card for Doom 2016 and played EvERYTHING maxed out then i wasnt interested in Titans cause i couldnt justify the price.

My main reason for upgrading the GTX 1080 was that Cyberpunk no matter what settings when it came out ran 50 frames and other games looked like they were becoming more demanding which is a given over years of use. the RX 7900XT also reason for that was i upgraded the monitor to a 34" 3440X1440 screen so i got to render more but even so had driver issues in the second month where Windows would update basic broken drivers eventually figured the fix and tricked it to not update was a bug on that format of Windows 11 seems to be non existent now.

very happy with the card i hit over 100 frames on most to all games Starfield i think i go 80-110frames on max settings last i played it. Helldivers somehow im hitting 187 avg frames .

Ray Tracing is availble on the RX 7000 series which is okay but this is where Nvidia shines compared to Radeon but i mean you comparing 100 frames to 70 frames depending on game and settings etc for single player games running at 60 or just over 60 at my res is totally fine i cannot see the massive difference when it comes to 120frames upwards in gaming cuase im too focused on what is happening in the game as long as its smooth and consistant

The overlay on AMD Adrenaline for displaying frames shows a lot more info than what Nvidia had/has to offer which is just frames but now i get to see ram usage etc and all sorts without other applications running like afterburner weirdly enough what ever screen im recording will nto show what im seeing i dont know how that works so if you want to do benchmark vids still use afterburner then.

but basically came down to Price hands down you will not be disapointed unless you get a sucky card

I even upgraded our HTPC from a RTX 3050 which is a great card btw i was shocked how good that card was to a RX 6700XT which i got for dirt cheap i couldnt resist (wanted to play more native on the TV at least 2k res etc and better upscaling etc) which is also a great card without Ray Tracing (was disapoint lol but didnt care sicne its just Gaming on the TV mostly emulators movies and some games that use controllers.

now latley this year with TI and Supers and Ti Super cards i think its a stretch from nvidia while Radeon made a GRE version of the RX7900XT which is the RX7900 GRE for cheaper of course but on benchmark vids i saw something like a 10-15frame lower to its XT model which is fine again depends on what settings you go for

This being said and all it entirely depends on
What games you playing
What settings you looking at future wise as well
What resolution is your monitor cause if you gaming in FullHD but its a 60hz screen you dont need to spend R20k on a card unless you planning on upgrading that monitor shortly after. same can be said the other way around you have a 4k monitor 120hz dont go for a budget card unless you just want the frames and dont care about graphics cause those cards crap themselves in 4k

talking native that is the dynamic resolutions often cause issues depending on the game and FSR does well enough as much as Nvidia's DLSS etc that being said FSR and DLSS is game dependednt
 
The Tseng ET4000 was a great video card, as was the S3 Trio 64 and the Voodoo3. Those were the last "display adapters" I had.

My feeling is that buying a GPU enables bad habbits by GPU makers and game developers. They become lazy. If you look at a game like Elite on the Spectrum or Doom on the PC, you see what is possible is they really want to make awesome games that runs on most hardware - no expensive GPUs required from the GPU cartel.

I went with integrated graphics around 2005 on the Radeon Xpress200 and the Radeon 780M in my Ryzen 9 8945 is capable of playing Xonotic at 120FPS in 4K. That is good enough I guess, and it does AI video upscaling at a decent rate with Video2X Qt6.

So, my hope is that the future is indeed APU, or SoC.
 
Rouxenator said:
The Tseng ET4000 was a great video card, as was the S3 Trio 64 and the Voodoo3. Those were the last "display adapters" I had.

My feeling is that buying a GPU enables bad habbits by GPU makers and game developers. They become lazy. If you look at a game like Elite on the Spectrum or Doom on the PC, you see what is possible is they really want to make awesome games that runs on most hardware - no expensive GPUs required from the GPU cartel.

I went with integrated graphics around 2005 on the Radeon Xpress200 and the Radeon 780M in my Ryzen 9 8945 is capable of playing Xonotic at 120FPS in 4K. That is good enough I guess, and it does AI video upscaling at a decent rate with Video2X Qt6.

So, my hope is that the future is indeed APU, or SoC.
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its also depending on peoples need

Devs really need to look at Steams censous servey as well majority of players are not using high end GPU's


nice part about onboard is that you can build some nice mini ITX pc's
 
Not what people told me it's gonna be. The so-called " AMD has driver issues " is remedied by doing your BIOS updates, doing your Windows Updates, ensuring all your AMD Chipset , MS VC++ and .NET dependencies are installed, verified and up-to-date. They all work hand in hand, never had any bugs or instabilities.

Specs is in my signature. 2200G + RX570 since 2019.
 
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I switch to AMD a few months ago when I caught wind of the price hikes.
Got a Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pulse.
My only bit of "weird behavior" that I've encountered so far is that it doesn't seem to like the Amazon Prime Video app.
For some reason it keeps crashing when I use it.

Other than that, it's solid.
Before switching I was afraid I might miss some of the features that Nvidia has, but I honestly don't.
It works great and the updates are far less frequent.

My main reason for switching is honestly because I have a Small Formfactor build that I travel with.
I could fit an Nvidia GPU in here, but I don't want the fire hazard.
Simple as that. I didn't want to deal with a poorly designed power connector.

So far I regret nothing and it's IMO one of the best purchases I made in 2025.
I'd honestly strongly consider AMD for my next upgrade again.

In terms of the Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pulse, I absolutely LOVE this card!
It barely fits in the Lian Li A4 H20, but man is the cooler over engineered!
Even when gaming this thing barely hits like 60 degrees. Plus for me personally, the Zero RGB is a huge plus. I personally don't like RGB, so it fits my theme here just perfectly.
 
DashPole said:
As the title states - what has your experience been like with AMD GPUs?

The Ryzen series CPUs took the PC gaming hardware world by storm, have the AMD GPUs done the same?

If you have any comments, please state what GPU and CPU you are running.
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They great

i just wish Microsoft stop trying to install bad outdated generic drivesr over it. (happens now and then)

overall since i switched from Nvidia to AMD ive actually liked AMD adrenaline more to geforce experience now Nivida APp its got everything built in and simplified.

performance wise they great too without that heavy price tag IF you dont care for ray tracing or path tracing that much.
 
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